Did You Win a 400m or 800m Relay at PMS Champs? You May Have a FINA WR!

I got an email today from the Pacific Masters Championships meet director about the relays they are intending to submit for FINA WR’s from the meet. If you were on a relay check the list! They need some info from you to verify your age. I pasted the e-mail below so you can get the full story…

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If you placed first in a 400 or 800 meters relay and ALL of your swimmers were 25 years and over this message is for you! If you HAVE NOT submitted proof of age to USMS for records submissions, you need to do so IMMEDIATLY. You should be receiving an email from Nancy Ridout or Walt Reid requesting a copy of your birth certificate or passport as proof of age. If you have ever held a national record, your proof of age should be on file.

FINA is now recording World Records in the 400 and 800 meter relay events and winning teams from our meet with all swimmers 25 and over will be submitted, ONLY if proof of age for ALL swimmers is on file. Record submission deadline is 11-1-09, and proof of age must be recorded in time to get the records to FINA by that date.

Fax a copy of your birth certificate or passport to Nancy at 415-898-3467 OR scan and email to registrar@pacificmasters.org

The following relay teams will be submitted for establishing World Records:


Women 160-199 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 9:28.00 9:36.44P
1) Santos, Debbie M W41 2) Henry, B J W45
3) Ward, Lisa A W45 4) Heim-Bowen, Suzanne M W51

Women 200-239 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Bay Masters-38 ‘A’ 12:35.68 12:15.32
1) Klencke, Barbara J W52 2) Lewis, Laurie W48
3) Morris, Suzanne M W54 4) Free, Sue W47

Men 200-239 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Santa Rosa Masters-38 ‘A’ 8:31.50 8:33.40N
1) Morales, John R M51 2) Dunn, Joe M51
3) Canales, Francisco M57 4) Schenstrom, Warren M52

Mixed 120-159 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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3 Manatee Aquatic Masters Inc-38 ‘A’ 9:59.00 9:40.57
1) Rublein, Susanne P W39 2) Pankey, Christopher S M55
3) Chinn, Sarah M W25 4) Selinger, Ili R M36

Mixed 160-199 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 8:40.00 8:26.62N
1) Sorensen, Jack M32 2) Zamanian, Alison H W39
3) Curran, Margee M W48 4) Santos, Roque J M41

Mixed 200-239 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Manatee Aquatic Masters Inc-38 ‘A’ 10:10.00 10:05.60
1) Perry, Rebecca W45 2) Cox, Juliet E W41
3) Upshaw, Bob B M60 4) Clemmons, Jim M59

Mixed 240-279 800 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 11:38.52 11:48.98
1) Tukua, Karen M W59 2) Piazza, Michael S M63
3) Scott, Stephanie I W62 4) Ugarkovich, David M M62

Women 120-159 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:30.00 4:36.40
1) Duggan, Karen L W39 2) Mendoza-Martens, Nicole J W33
3) Haack, Angela R W35 4) Tukua, Rebecca R W27

Women 160-199 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:20.00 4:22.75P
1) Santos, Debbie M W41 2) Ward, Lisa A W45
3) Henry, B J W45 4) Valentine, Sara W45

Women 200-239 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Bay Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:50.17 5:30.18
1) Watlington, B Gale W47 2) Morris, Suzanne M W54
3) Klencke, Barbara J W52 4) Lewis, Laurie W48

Women 240-279 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Tamalpais Aquatic Masters-38 ‘A’ 5:05.00 4:56.63N
1) Val, Laura B W58 2) Eisenman, Judy A W55
3) Ridout, Nancy J W67 4) Shoenberger, Linda R W62

Women 280-319 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 6:40.00 6:20.10P
1) Murphy, Karen L W49 2) Monroe, Donna W76
3) Alexander, Joan E W77 4) Hirsch, Ann M W78

Women 320-359 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 12:00.00 9:12.66
1) Mc Millan, Betty T W80 2) Haworth, Joyce M W72
3) Howell, Jae W87 4) Owens, Barbara R W80

Men 100-119 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Bay Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:21.11 4:34.16
1) Pun, Peter W M27 2) Tornatore-Pili, John A M26
3) Saab, Paul M31 4) Ellis, Byron C M32

Men 120-159 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Bay Masters-38 ‘A’ 3:49.99 3:40.32
1) Jones, Clayton P M30 2) Ketterling, Casey B M32
3) Connolly, Darrin T M38 4) Matarangas, John T M39

Men 160-199 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 3:50.00 4:04.54
1) Abrams, Scott C M42 2) Allen, Chuck F M45
3) Nootbaar, Tom T M46 4) Mikuni, Aaron J M29

Men 200-239 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:01.00 4:05.18
1) Druz, Loren M53 2) Dugan, Tom W M51
3) Volpp, Bryan D M52 4) Patterson, Gary L M50

Men 240-279 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 4:32.00 5:10.55
1) Smyers, Jesse B M63 2) Burr, Ken M M65
3) Boscovich, Harold O M67 4) Ugarkovich, David M M62

Men 280-319 400 SC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Walnut Creek Masters-38 ‘A’ 5:45.00 6:44.11
1) Mayo, Robert W M76 2) Perilman, Jim E M70
3) Daniel, Jack C M76 4) Nieman, Frank B M77

Mixed 160-199 400 SC Meter Medley Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Manatee Aquatic Masters Inc-38 ‘A’ 5:40.00 5:07.62
1) Heath, Robert H M52 2) Rublein, Susanne P W39
3) Hult, Britta J W29 4) Clemmons, Jim M59

Mixed 200-239 400 SC Meter Medley Relay
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Team Seed Finals
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1 Rolling Hills Mud Sharks-38 ‘A’ 5:25.00 5:27.75
1) Powell, Susie W W57 2) Ericsson, Ken M49
3) Adkison, Bill M54 4) Viscardi, Josie A W45

Kara Gray – Meet Director

October 22, 2009 | No Comments »

More Pics from PMS SCM Champs


200m Fly Start

Just wanted to share a cool shot that my swim blogger friend Tracy took at the meet this weekend. She did her own write up of the meet here. She also posted more shots from the weekend her that you can check out

October 20, 2009 | No Comments »

2009 Pacific Masters SCM Champs Wrap Up – Saturday

**Results will be posted here as they become available


The competition pool

Today was day 2 of PMS SCM Championships hosted by the Walnut Creek Masters. It’s a 3 day meet, but I just came up for the day (I miss the ocean and wanted to be home on Sunday for my Avila Swim!). Even though this is a championship meet for PMS it was more of a tune up meet for me since I still have 4 SCM meets left in Southern California to deal with. Being as such I went out on a limb and tried out a new event that I’ve never ever done as an age grouper or an adult… the dreaded 200m fly!!!

The 200m fly is one of those events that’s been on my to do list but that I am too much of a chicken to sign up for. When I was doing the web registration for the meet I decided to just put it in there and figure out if I would do it later. Eventually I made the conscious decision to tell people that yes, I am crazy and I did enter the 200m fly so that I would indirectly peer pressure myself into not “accidentally” scratch the event. I wasn’t really sure how to approach the event because I’ve never done more than maybe 125-150 yards of fly in a row before in my life. A few people asked me what my game plan was and my answer was basically “um… I have no idea… finish?”

There were only 2 heats of guys and my made up time put me in the fast lane for heat one. It was a pretty diverse heat, the ages ranged from me at 28 up to 72. Once we got up on the blocks I devised my plan, steady and relaxed. I had to turn off my sprint reflex and make sure that I spent as much time underwater off the turns as I could handle. I probably only spent like 55m of the first 100m on top of the water! Once I crested the 100m mark I was surprised that I wasn’t totally gassing out. I wasn’t able to get as much out of my walls anymore but my stroke wasn’t falling apart yet so I was pretty happy with that. I really didn’t start getting shaky in my arms until midway through the last 25m. I couldn’t believe it I actually paced a 200m race… I never do that right! Tracy, who also writes a masters swimming blog, got some pictures from the race for me that are coming soon to the internets. She sent me an early preview of the good stuff… check it out!


Photo by Tracy Barbutes Photography

So down to numbers… I finished in 2:42.28 (equivalent to a 2:25 in yards for those of you like me that can’t comprehend what meters times mean). My splits break out like this:

33.92
1:13.33 (39.41)
1:56.88 (43.55)
2:42.28 (45.40)

My steady application of power program seems to have worked pretty well. I expected to slow as I progressed, which I did, but I’m really pleased that the drops were so small. If I would have swam that first 100 the way I normally swim a 100 I would have added way more time to the back half.

So that ends the good swimming portion of my day. I was pretty much wrecked after that. After the 200m fly I did a short warm down and changed into my Finis Amphibian suit so that I could finally test it out in the water. I floated around in the warm up pool for a bit and it wasn’t really feeling right for me. It felt kind of heavy almost, I can’t explain it, maybe I was just extra tired and it was compressing on me in weird ways. Like I’ve said before each suit seems to work different for everybody, and well this one isn’t for me. Anyways, I finally raced in it and my race was a bit of a mess.

I swam the 50m breast which is a total off event for me. I call it a palate cleanser because no matter what time I lay down it doesn’t really matter, I’m still not going to be a good breaststroker! I felt okay off the start and my pulldown was good. Things started to go a little sideways when I took that first stroke to get me to the surface of the pool however… turns out I was still like 5 feet under, whoops. I had no grip on where I was depth-wise in the pool which is totally out of character for me. I ended up doing this really awkward semi vertical stroke thing that pretty much stopped my forward movement completely. It was ugly. I thought I was going to get DQed for sure. This mistake totally took me out of the race, I never caught back up. Even though there was an official standing behind my block when I finished I never got told that I DQed so I’m assuming I made it barely legal. That swim definitely falls into the lesson learned category! Yikes!

I was so wiped out I dropped my 200IM, which was plan A anyways in the instance that I actually swam my 200m fly. All I had to do was hang out and wait for the 50m fly and I would be done for the day. I took off my Finis suit and threw on a drag suit and just went swimming for a while in the warm up pool. It started getting pretty hot around lunchtime so it was nice to just be underwater for a while.

When my 50m fly came up I decided to wear my TYR Fusion Tights. I’ve swam in them before just not in a race. Technically and aesthetically my 50m fly was just fine, but chronologically it wasn’t a winner. I was like 1.5 seconds off where I should have been. I just didn’t have the energy… the earlier race and all the sunshine kind of wiped me out.

Even though I had some off races, I had a lot of fun at the meet. I got to hang out with a bunch of my NorCal swimmer friends, and I got to borrow some shade from Coach Chris and the Mountain View Masters which I’m most appreciative of. Also I gotta say the Walnut Creek Masters did a really good job with this meet. The first 10 minutes were a little touch and go while they worked on finding timers, but super smooth from there on out. Good luck to everybody swimming day 3!

I’m hoping a lot of the Pacific Masters kids decide to make the trek down to Long Beach in December for SPMA SCM Champs, I think it’s going to be a hot meet. Fast swimmers, fast pool, and possibly your last chance to break out your techsuit collection legally!


an artsy cell phone picture of the main 50m pool

October 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

2009 Pacific Masters SCM Championships Psych Sheets


The 2009 Pacific Masters Short Course Meters Championship meet gets going tomorrow in Walnut Creek with the distance events. I got a link to the Psych sheets in my email tonight, you can check them out here

I’m only swimming on Saturday. My schedule is pretty nutty… there’s a 200 fly (holy crap!), 200 IM, and a 50 fly and breast. That 200 IM might not happen depending on how I feel after that 200 fly, but I’m really hoping to lay down a decent time in the 50 fly. I want to get my 50m closer to a 28. Anyways, that’s the deal. See you guys at the pool!

October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

2009 Pacific Masters SCM Championships Sign Up Deadline Today!

The PMS SCM Championships are coming up on the 16th-18th of October in Walnut Creek. I’m going to drive up to Walnut Creek Friday night and then swim all day Saturday. All the meet and event information is available here. If you want to go you can still register online for the rest of today here, the deadline is tonight (Oct 7th) at midnight.

October 7, 2009 | No Comments »